Washing machine



27 1926. Apnl A. w. ALTORFER WASHING MACHINE Original Filed May 4, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 nunluru INYENTDH.

.April 27, 1926. 1,582,235

A, W. ALTORFER WASHING MACHINE Original Filed May 4. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 TTY Patented Apr. 27, 1926.

UNITED srarssl 1,582,235 PATENT OFFICE.

ALPHEUS W. ALTORFER, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T AL'IORFER ABROS. COM- PANY, OF EAST PEORIA, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

WASHING MACHINE.

Original application led May 4, 1922, Serial No. 558,410. Divided and this application led December To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHEUS iV. Auronrnn, a citizen ot the United States, a resident of Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in lashing Machines, oit which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to washing machines and relates particularly to that type of-machine intended for domestic use in the home.

This application is a division of the application filed by me May 4, 1922 bearing Serial No. 558,410.

The invention has for its principal object to provide a new and improved wringer structure for a multiple tub machine; the wringer structure and drive being preferably located between the tubs and includes gearing for operating the wrin ger rolls from the vertically arranged wringer driving shaft. i

The Ainvention further comprehends a wringer operating mechanism disposed intermediate the multiple tubs and means for actuating the same from the primary transmission of the machine. Such wringer operating mechanism includes gearing, wherein the gear wheel is carried on a short shaft geared direct to the reverse mechanism for the wringer and removable with such re? verse mechanism when it is desired to detach the wringer from the machine.

That the invention may be more fully understood, reference is had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of the present invention, illustrating a preferred embodiment of the invention, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a multiple tub machine, in dotted lines, showing my improved wringer structure both in full and dotted lines and in different positions;

Figure 2 is a detail in elevation showing the wringer support;

Figure 3 is a sectional detail of a part of the Wringer support, operatingnieans and planetary gearing, and

Figure 4 is a cross-section in plan, as the same would appear if taken on the line 4 4 Figure 3.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the figures.

As the frame and casing, tub or clothes container, operating mechanism and rinse Serial No. 682,443.

tub` support form a part of and are fully shown and described in my said original application herein-above mentioned, and forni no part of the present invention, they are omitted, except Where it is necessary or desii-able to illustrate their association with the structure herein claimed, and then preferably illustrated only by dotted lines.

The frame and casing includes the end supports l, l and the intermediate and abutting supports 2, 2, and'to the lower end of each support 1, 1 is secured a bracket 3 carrying a caster-wheel 4 to make the machine port-able and for ease and convenience in moving the machine from place to place. Suitable cross-braces 13 are shown and others, not shown, are or may be provided where necessary.

Tubs or clothes containers are designated 20 and are preferably arranged in multiple and of the oscillatory type. To the opposite side walls of each tub are secured castings 21 provided with trunnions 22 journaled in siutable brackets 24 secured to the supports 1 and 2 respectively.

, The wringer support includes the preferas bly tubular standard or casing 56 which is located intermediate the tubs 20 and preferably extends up .and alongside a support 2, the other and adjacent support 2, see Figure 1, being cutaway to accommodate the same. 85 Said wringer support having ears 57 that it may be bolted to a support 2 and other ears 58, see Figure 2, that it may also be bolted to a suitable cross brace bar of the frame, not shown. Also a casting 5) having a tubular leg 60 fitting in the upper end of the standard or casing 56, see Figures 2 and 3; .said casting formed with or having connected thereto a bracket 61 to support the wringer B.

Journaled in the standard or casing 56 and terminating nearVv the top thereof is a shaft 62 on the lower end of which is a bevel gear wheel 63, see Figure 2 adapted to have a meshing relation with a similar gear wheel, not shown, on a driving shaft, not shown. On the upper end of said shaft 62 is yieldingly and slidably held a clutch sleeve 65, the same being longitudinally slotted, as at 66 to receive a pin 67 in the shaft, and yieldingly held in acting position by a spring 68 coiled on said shaft 62. The upper end of the standard or casing 56 is enlarged, as at 69 to receive the leg 60 of the casting 59, and said enlargement is flanged, as at 70,

and said flange formed or provided with a` plurality 'of radially arranged slots 71, for a purpose to be explained. The casting 59 is formed or provided with a shaft bearing 72 off-set from the leg 60 to provide for planetary gearing to transmit motion from the shaft 62 to the rolls of the wringer B. This gearing includes the gears 73 and 74, the latter being the planet gear which revolves around the gear 7 3 when the wringer is swung to different positions. The gear 73 is secured to the upper end of a shaft 75 journaled in the leg 60 and on the lower end of said shaft 7 5 1s secured a clutch sleeve 76 arranged to have clutch connection with the sleeve 65 on the. shaft G2. The planet gear 7 4 is secured to the lower end of a short shaft 77 journaled in the shaft bearing 72 of the casting 59 and to the upper end of said shaft 77 is connected a bevel gear wheel 78, arranged to be clutch connected to the wringer shaft 79 in a manner well known in the art. The casting 59 with the wringer B and the leg 60 is removable and therefore detachably connected with the upper end of the standard or casing 56 and when the casting is swung to different adjusted positions may be locked by a pivotal key 8O inserted into either of the slots 71 in the ange 70 of the standard 56, as will be understood.

What I claim is 1. In a wringer mechanism, a tubular standard, a casting having a bearing portion axial to said standard and removably attached thereto to be swung thereabout and having an offset bearing portion, a wringer mechanism on said casting, an operating shaft in said standard, a short driven shaft journaled in said off-set bearing portion of the casting, a counter-shaft journaled in said axial portion of said casting, gearing connecting said counter and driven shafts, clutch means to connect said operating and counter shafts, and reversing gearing connecting said driven shaft and said wringer.

2. In a Wringer mechanism, a tubular standard, a. casting having a bearing portion axial to said 4standard and removably attached thereto to `be swung thereabout and having an offset bearing portion, a wringer mechanism on said casting, an operating shaft in said standard, a short driven shaft journaled in said off-set bearing portionof the casting, a counter-shaft journaled in said axial portion of said casting, gearing connecting said counter and driven shafts, clutch means to connect said operating and counter shafts, including a member slidably and yieldingly held on said operating shaft, and reversing gearing connecting said driven shaft and said wrinfe-r.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my hand this 22nd day of December, 1928.

ALPHEUS W. ALTORFER. 

